SweaterGirl

I'm firmly in the Xander camp. Ricard would be my 2nd choice if I were on the jury. Xander, let's not forget, had to survive all those TCs without even a VOTE until all the phrases were spoken in the same challenge. He volunteered to sit out a challenge and stepped up to support Shan's bargaining game with Jeff for rice to feed the whole tribe. 2 things that, regardless of how sincere they were, proved that Xander is ALWAYS calculating, weighing, thinking about leverage. In a word, outwitting. His ruination of Liana's advantage was both skillful and bold, as was his confidence in not playing his idol for Evvie. He knew that Evvie was safe. His use of his extra vote was not by accident, nor was it wasted. He took that step as a very aggressive, proactive move, to get Liana out without waiting for a tie and a revote. This gave him cover for his own vote as well, and to me is a decisiveness that shows Xander's determination to "outplay." Voting for Liana before Ricard was the superior move, since Liana was part of the strongest alliance with the most potential jury support. Xander knew about the Monty Hall problem immediately. His comments in tribal are unwaveringly solid, perfectly calibrated to please all listeners without betraying any personal bias, and delivered in a believably sincere plausibility. I personally feel that Xander has outwitted, outplayed, and outlasted all the others, to this point, and done so from the bottom, without strong alliances, without a VOTE in half the show, and without playing his idol. Ricard is smart and strategic, and I will have no complaints should he win. I just feel that Xander's game has been stealthier, under the radar, but no less sharp and aggressive than Ricard's, and all from a place of far less security.

Maybe it's just me, but I think Rebecca is full of s***, and has nefarious motives. I think she is planting the gavin/isaiah idea as the perfect manipulation tactic to make the other characters do as she wants. I don't believe Silas is the bad guy. I think he is protecting Isaiah from the evils of Rebecca's plans for him. He may even have come to 10000 b.c. as a selfless sacrifice for the higher cause of saving Isaiah (and humanity?) from a diabolical future unknown to us but known to him. I write "Isaiah" because it bugs me to pronounce it this way and then spell it "Isiah." Just me lol. Also, I can't get past the fact that Isaiah looks like Izzy, not like Gavin, and has basically the same name! Could it be he is Izzy somehow? They have been in the old world for a few years....could Izzy have experienced some time warp during her accident? And is Isaiah's scar for real, or could it have been planted (via time travel?) by Rebecca, either on Isaiah the child or on Gavin just before he was found wandering? Love to hear reactions to these thoughts.

Just MOO... I think Zeke is being manipulated by Sarah. I think his warm fuzzies while looking at her and Jared happened because Sarah was still willfully impersonating Michaela, which she began while assisting Beverly. It was Michaela's misgivings, not Zeke's, that Zeke heard from Beverly, after Sarah channeled Michaela and put them into Beverly. The Noahs Ark is a red herring. The lie was not only Saanvi's but Vance's. Think about it...he said himself it was the greatest secret in NSA history...if so, of course he's going to invent a false secret to tell Saanvi. He knew she would tell. It's something else, either the Al Zuras ship or aliens, time travel, teleportation, or something. Saanvi was healed because she came clean on the only lie she knew about. I think Olive went against character because Angelina is doing it to her, a dark influence purposely trying to turn Olive bad, perhaps to drive her to some bad deed that will turn the family against her. Also...I don't think the Major is dead. I think Vance and his guys faked her death. You never actually see the body that is in the bag they dumped. The Major was surveilling Saanvi, they could have figured out Saanvi's injection plan...and faked like Saanvi killed her. The Major did shove the antidote away. This way Saanvi needs Vance's protection, and believes he is on her side, and that she owes him her work and her silence from the other passengers. It was a brilliant way to control Saanvi and gain her trust, so that she would believe the Noahs Ark story while helping them with something much bigger unknowingly. I think the Major is now using Sarah as a proxy informant. She is close to all the Stones, Zeke, and Jared. She also, as I said above, seems able to manipulate herself into the roles of other people, and/or make Zeke think she is good and good for Jared by cloaking herself in the vibes of Michaela somehow. Who knows what the Major learned from Saanvi's research, or the experimented-on passengers, that she haa now taught Sarah to use to gain the Major information? Thoughts anyone??